Adding Systems Manually To An Existing Group - McAfee EPOLICY ORCHESTRATOR 4.0.2 Product Manual

Organizing Systems for Management
Creating and populating groups
Task
For option definitions, click ? on the page displaying the options.
1 Go to Systems | System Tree | Group, then select the desired group in the System
Tree, under which to create another group.
2 Click New Subgroup at the bottom of the page. The New Subgroup dialog box appears.
3 Type the desired name then click OK. The new group appears in the System Tree.
4 Repeat as necessary until you are ready to populate the groups with the desired systems.
Add systems to the System Tree and ensure they get to the desired groups by:
• Typing system names manually.
• Importing them from NT domains or Active Directory containers. You can regularly
synchronize a domain or a container to a group for ease of maintenance.
• Setting up IP address-based or tag-based sorting criteria on the groups. When agents
check in from systems with matching IP address information or matching tags, they are
automatically placed in the appropriate group.

Adding systems manually to an existing group

Use this task to import systems from your Network Neighborhood to groups. You can also import
a network domain or Active Directory container.
Task
For option definitions, click ? on the page displaying the options.
1 Go to Systems | System Tree, then click New Systems. The New Systems page
appears.
Figure 11: New Systems page
2 Select whether to deploy the agent to the new systems, and whether the systems are
added to the selected group or to a group according to sorting criteria.
3 Next to Systems to add, type the NetBIOS name for each system in the text box, separated
by commas, spaces, or line breaks. Alternatively, click Browse to select the systems.
4 If you selected Deploy agents and add systems to the current group, you can enable
automatic System Tree sorting. Do this to apply the sorting criteria to these systems.
5 If you selected to deploy agents to the new systems:
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